If you have ever received a text message saying you've won a gift card or gift certificate, experts say most likely its a phishing scam.
"You will not get your gift card you'll not get the merchandise and what will happen any information that you enter on that website will either be stolen or the website itself has a malicious virus on it which will infect your computer," says Timothy Caminos, Hawaii Better Business Bureau.
Experts say the bogus gift card offers are mostly for Apple and Best Buy stores.
Another text messaging scam circulating is where consumers receive a text and are told they've signed up for a service asking them to respond.
"If you click or push one for yes you will be charged $10.95 if you do not want to charged $10.95 please respond two for no," says Caminos.
The Hawaii BBB says regardless of what you answer, you will be charged.
If you have received text messages like these, caminos says the best way to dispute the charge is to contact your cell phone provider.
"When scammers do this they're usually not texting from another phone they're using a web based application meaning they're just on-line texting to random numbers," says Caminos.
To prevent yourself from getting these text messages, caminos says you can ask your cell phone provider to block all web-based texts.
"If you receive a solicitation text that is asking you to visit a website or enter information claiming that you've won the product or a coupon or any kind of prize you just delete that off your phone," says Caminos.
